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milivella [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
15 years ago30,050 views

When you search for something in Google Groups, it searches in all the web forums it knows, not only in Google Groups + usenet. See e.g.:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=pro%20evolution%20soccer%202009%20pc&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg

So this is (one of) the result(s) they aimed when they added additional infos for forum threads...

(I haven't find such news either in the blog or in the forum, but of course I can be wrong. If so, please delete this post. Thanks!)

Kevin P. [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

There appears to be a bug here. Try doing a Google Groups search with "Google Groups" (as opposed to "all groups") selected. Then click the "Web" link on the upper left to perform a Google Web search. Notice that all the Web search results are restricted to groups.google.com pages. Also notice that you are "trapped" in this mode for all subsequent searches you perform unless you go out of your way (by going back to Groups and selecting "all groups" or navigating afresh to www.google.com, etc.).

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]kevin: you're right, such a bug should have been easily avoided... still this also brings the focus on the fact that a url like http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=hello&sitesearch=www.epilepsy.com will still state it searches all groups.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

<< Also notice that you are "trapped" in this mode for all subsequent searches you perform unless you go out of your way... >>

That's because they're using the [sitesearch:] operator as a hack for this. You can simply remove [sitesearch=groups.google.com] from the query string too.

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